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Title

Ledger of Concini receipts

Call number

Ms. Codex 1482
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944812413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318650853
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4481241

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1581-1600

Place

Florence

Summary

Ledger with receipts of Giovanbattista Concini for the years 1581-1600. Includes the nature of a given transaction, usually a payment made by Giovanbattista Concini to a number of different counterparts, as well as the amount of the transaction. The counterparts, after receiving the sum of money they were owed, usually as a payment for their services, wrote a short receipt on the ledger, stating the amount they were given and the reason of the payment, and signed and dated it. Most of the counterparts were professionals who worked for the Concini family (including farmers, bakers, various textile workers, dyers and manufacturers, builders, decorators, carpenters and wood merchants, a sculptor, a glass-maker, a hotel manager, a kiln repairer, a spice merchant, and a jeweler) or business owners who purchased or sold small amounts of textile products from them. Other transactions, scattered throughout the ledger, were with members of some the most important families of Florence, with whom the Concini did business. Among such counterparts, the most important are Vincenzo Medici (f. 107v, f. 132r, f. 154r, f. 154v, and f. 169v); Filippo Giunta (f. 142v, f. 166r, and f. 189v); Antonio Gondi (f. 95v and f. 97v); Gregorio Pagani, a painter (f. 119r and f. 141v); Filippo and Antonio Salviati (respectively f. 49v and f. 55v); and Jacopo Chiti (f. 134v). Transactions with Florentine institutions such as the Spedale of Santa Maria Novella (f. 8r), the Spedale of Santa Maria degli Innocenti (f. 15v, f. 20v, f. 28r, f. 34v, f. 36r) and the company in charge of the Cappella della Trinità (f. 32r). Transactions where money is sent to the Concini house in Florence from the farms of San Jacopo and Terranuova are also present, and this is usually the result of the sale of produce, wine or oil. Flyleaves are made from a paper fragment of a late 15th-century manuscript written in Greek that contains a passage from Book 8 of Paul of Aegina.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Forms part of: Concini Papers.
   

Watermark

Unidentified watermark containing a bird (perhaps an eagle) on a shield.

Extent

196 leaves : 228 x 165 mm. bound to 234 x 168 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 196 + i (paper); [1], 2-89, 89-195, contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (some versos have the same numeral as the recto).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, Ricevute 1581-1600 on spine; the heading Ricevute 1581-1600, Giovanbattista Concini, letter B with decorative penwork, and no.2 della filza on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties.

Layout

Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts and the settlement date, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Receipts written in long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Ledgers (account books)
• Receipts (financial records)
• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Accounts
• 16th century
• Italian
• Paper
• Italy
• Financial records

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